Evolving Multi Rover Systems in Dynamic and Noisy Environments
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Evolving Multi Rover Systems in Dynamic and Noisy Environments
- Publication date
- 2005
- Usage
- Public Domain
- Topics
- LUNAR EXPLORATION, LOW EARTH ORBITS, LUNAR SURFACE, PLANETARY SURFACES, SPACE EXPLORATION, MOON, LUNAR BASES, NASA PROGRAMS, INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, SPACE SHUTTLES
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- nasa_techdocs
- Contributor
- NASA
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Public Domain
In this chapter, we address how to evolve control strategies for a collective: a set of entities that collectively strives to maximize a global evaluation function that rates the performance of the full system. Addressing such problems by directly applying a global evolutionary algorithm to a population of collectives is unworkable because the search space is prohibitively large. Instead, we focus on evolving control policies for each member of the collective, where each member is trying to maximize the fitness of its own population. The main difficulty with this approach is creating fitness evaluation functions for the members of the collective that induce the collective to achieve high performance with respect to the system level goal. To overcome this difficulty, we derive member evaluation functions that are both aligned with the global evaluation function (ensuring that members trying to achieve high fitness results in a collective with high fitness) and sensitive to the fitness of each member (a member's fitness depends more on its own actions than on actions of other members). In a difficult rover coordination problem in dynamic and noisy environments, we show how to construct evaluation functions that lead to good collective behavior. The control policy evolved using aligned and member-sensitive evaluations outperforms global evaluation methods by up to a factor of four. in addition we show that the collective continues to perform well in the presence of high noise levels and when the environment is highly dynamic. More notably, in the presence of a larger number of rovers or rovers with noisy sensors, the improvements due to the proposed method become significantly more pronounced.
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- 2011-06-13 06:00:07
- Document-source
- CASI
- Documentid
- 20060017070
- Identifier
- nasa_techdoc_20060017070
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t3223sw07
- Nasa-center
- Ames Research Center
- Ocr
- ABBYY FineReader 8.0
- Online-source
- http://wayback.archive-it.org/1792/20100213060903/http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20060017070
- Original-nasa-rights
- Unclassified; No Copyright; Unlimited; Publicly available;
- Ppi
- 300
- Updated-added-to-ntrs
- 2006-08-02
- Year
- 2005
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